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On a page on the English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Providence) there is a source (http://thisprovidence.livejournal.com/230533.html) that the bot has twice marked as a permanent dead link, despite the website still being alive. However, when I try to report it as a false positive, the report returns as "These URLs were not found in the DB and will be ignored" and I am unable to submit the report.

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I think you got your links mixed up. I see no such link being changed on that article.

It's the source listed under footnote 7. The sentence within the article that cites the source is "On June 19, 2007, This Providence officially announced Ryan Tapert's departure from the group." InternetArchiveBot marked the link as permanently dead in edits on 02:31, 11 June 2017 and 21:48, 5 April 2017.

Okay, I think I may have figured out what the problem is - the actual URL linked within the article is at http://community.livejournal.com/thisprovidence/230533.html which then redirects to the URL I linked in the report. I was copying the URL from the address bar rather than within the article so I didn't notice the difference.